Aha, now I just found something in which an 'expert' states that Walter Pardon learned some of his songs by listening to records on a wind-up gramophone. Any ideas who this expert may have been? And on whether or not this same expert later vehemently denied that any such thing happened. Which ones and were they recorded or not? We shall never know. What we do know is that there were disagreements about whether Put A Bit of Powder on it should have been released, one argument being that it wasn't all folk. And for me there were clearly 'agendas' some of them potentially valid, one does not have to take sides on this, but it seems undeniable that there were agendas.

If this is regarded as trolling I am sorry. It sort of extends the 'have an agenda about what is collectable' point to a wider one including 'have an agenda about what is issuable on record as part of a project of presenting a particular singer to the public'.

Please let me know if this comes across as trolling. And I shall go away.

I am sure everybody is grateful that so much material was captured on tape or via transcription. The point has been made very often on these threads.